The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Dec. 13, 2012
New in The Texas Tribune:
• SD-6 Election Set for Jan. 26: "Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday that a special election on Jan. 26 will decide who will follow the late state Sen. Mario Gallegos in representing Harris County. … The election will likely come down to a choice between two veteran Democrats: Sylvia Garcia, a former Harris County commissioner, and state Rep. Carol Alvarado, who also served six years on the Houston City Council."
• Mexico's New Political Regime Sparks Human Rights Activism in Texas: "Weeks after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's inauguration, a group of activists in Texas ...
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Rudyg43
The 2014 Mid-terms are a-coming! Latinos and other Hispanic groups will do the deed of registering and getting people to the polls. Let's look at the numbers. Obama won 71 % of the Hispanic/Latino vote! It wasn't even close! The TEA-Republican party have done everything they could to isolate and minimize people of color and drag their feet on immigration. They have even politicized a black woman's nomination to an ambassadorship. President Obama barely lost one of the swing states and there will be more in the future. Ethnic demographics will change and placing forward Ted Cruz is but window dressing as Ted Cruz is Hispanic by name, Canadian by birth and totally discounted by the real Hispanic/Latino voices. Marco Rubio has fallen in line behind the same fringe elements who demeaned women with rape comments, disenfranchised voters of color and fail the very people most needy of social programs like Medicaid and Planned Parenthood. There are numerous organizations throughout the country who are targeting those who fail to recognize this giant socio-politico-economic group. And the 2014 Mid-terms are a-coming!